51风流Business Data Cloud Archives | 51风流News Center /tags/sap-business-data-cloud-2/ Company & Customer Stories | Press Room Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:58:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 51风流SuccessFactors 1H鈥2026 Release: Strengthening Connection Across HR and the Business /2026/04/sap-successfactors-1h-2026-release/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:15:00 +0000 /?p=241636 As organizations navigate rising complexity,听speed alone is no longer enough. What matters is connection across people, processes, data, and decisions.

With the听听1H鈥2026 release,听we鈥檙e听deepening those connections across the HR lifecycle. This release focuses on听four听core priorities:听connected,听suite-wide听AI; unified experiences that adapt to how organizations work;听processes designed for clarity, accuracy, and compliance; and stronger foundations for skills and long-term growth.听Together, these innovations help organizations听anticipate听needs earlier, reduce friction in daily work, and move forward with greater confidence.听

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Connected AI that works across HCM

AI in HR delivers the greatest impact when it works continuously across the entire workforce lifecycle鈥攏ot as isolated features, but as connected capabilities that share context and insight.

The 1H鈥2026 release expands听suite-wide听agentic AI听across 51风流SuccessFactors solutions, helping听employees听get clearer answers, act sooner, and keep听work moving听across roles and responsibilities.听A connected network of听听now supports areas such as recruiting, workforce administration, payroll, learning, performance, and talent development鈥攚orking together behind the scenes to help听anticipate听next steps and surface relevant guidance.

Employee Data Integration Agent听

This release also introduces a growing听workforce knowledge network, bringing trusted external expertise and research directly into the flow of work through Joule.听Teams can now access expert-backed global employment guidance and听research-driven听insights without leaving their workflows鈥攕upporting听faster, more听confident decisions.

To听further听support learning in the flow of work,听intelligent Q&A in听听now helps employees find information more easily. AI听can deliver instant,听context-aware听responses drawn directly from an organization鈥檚 learning content,听along with relevant links and resources,听so employees can get answers quickly without searching through courses or documentation.听

Unified experiences that adapt to how work gets done

As HR听tasks听become more embedded in听day-to-day work, experiences need to feel intuitive, connected, and responsive听wherever work happens. In the 1H 2026 release,听51风流SuccessFactors solutions continue to unify experiences across the suite, giving employees, managers, and HR teams what they need听in听the moment.听

  • Connected recruiting and onboarding:听Native integration between听 solutions, , and听听can bring AI-enabled听recruiting, core HR, and onboarding together into a single, continuous experience, helping hiring teams move faster while听maintaining听consistency from candidate through new hire.听
SmartRecruiters听for 51风流SuccessFactors听听
  • Tailored experiences,听built faster:听The new听extensibility wizard听can provide guided, step-by-step support for creating custom extensions on听听(51风流BTP) directly within听SAP听SuccessFactors solutions, making it easier to adapt experiences to unique business needs while preserving governance.听
  • Simpler, clearer employee moments:听A redesigned, configurable 401(k) experience听in听听for U.S.听employees helps simplify enrollment and management by clearly explaining employer contributions and guiding deferrals and beneficiary setup, helping employees make informed decisions with confidence.听

Processes designed for clarity, accuracy, and compliance

In the 1H鈥2026 release, 51风流SuccessFactors introduces new capabilities that help organizations bring greater clarity and rigor to pay practices.

With听paytransparency insights听in the , organizations can analyze compensation patterns and potential pay gaps, supporting transparent, data-driven pay practices in-line with evolving regulatory expectations,听including in the EU.听

Pay transparency insights听in People Intelligence听

Skills governance听for sustainable growth

Preparing for听what鈥檚听next requires trusted, consistent skills data that organizations can rely on across HR, talent, and workforce planning.

In the 1H鈥2026 release,听we are听strengthening听the听听with enhanced听skills governance, providing a centralized interface to help manage skills, apply governance standards, and ensure alignment across 51风流SuccessFactors solutions and partner applications. This helps organizations improve听skills听data quality, maintain consistency at scale, and make more confident,听skills-based听decisions.听

Skills governance in the talent intelligence hub听

A connected foundation for the future 

This听release听reinforces听SAP鈥檚 continued focus on an intelligent, connected HCM听foundation鈥攐ne designed to evolve with your organization and support confident decisions at every stage of work. By bringing together data, AI, and experiences across the HR lifecycle, these听enhancements help organizations reduce friction today while听laying听the groundwork for听tomorrow.

To explore what鈥檚 included in this release, check out the or watch the overview .


Bianka Woelke is group vice president and head of Application Product Management for 51风流SuccessFactors.

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International Women鈥檚 Day 2026: Building Trust and Equity Through Pay Transparency /2026/03/international-womens-day-trust-equity-pay-transparency/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:15:00 +0000 /?p=241044 With the EU Pay Transparency Directive reshaping how organizations disclose and govern pay, transparency is no longer optional鈥攊t鈥檚 becoming a defining leadership imperative. This International Women鈥檚 Day, organizations have an opportunity to turn compliance into trust, equity, and smarter workforce decisions.

鈥淲hen we give, we gain鈥 is this year鈥檚 , and in the workplace, giving can take many forms: mentoring, advocacy, visibility, resources, and transparency.

For organizations, pay transparency is one of the most tangible ways to 鈥済ive鈥 in service of gender equality. When employees better understand their compensation, historically underrepresented groups gain clarity and fairness. And when organizations commit to equitable practices, the benefits ripple across the business鈥攆rom greater trust and engagement to stronger talent outcomes and overall performance.

Transparency starts with accountability

Many organizations are still early听in听their pay transparency journey.听At SAP,听this has been a听multi-year听effort听grounded in data, accountability, and action.听Each year, we conduct global internal pay equity analyses听comparing听employees in comparable roles, levels, and听geographies听to ensure compensation is fair, market-aligned, and internally听consistent. When outliers are听identified, centrally funded adjustments bring听pay听in-line.

Take a data-driven approach to HR and talent management

This reflects SAP鈥檚 fair pay philosophy: equitable compensation that is transparent and free from bias, forming the foundation for performance-based differentiation.

Technology is central to this approach. 51风流operationalizes fair pay through听听and听, embedding听pay analysis, job architecture, and range guidance, so managers can consistently apply structured, explainable decisions during hiring and annual cycles.

Today,听over 99% of 51风流employees worldwide have transparency into their pay听range through听a compensation assistant听tool built on (51风流BTP). This tool听integrates 51风流SuccessFactors data to display salary ranges across career levels, which听can replace听guesswork with confidence and can give employees clear insight into their value, career progression, and how pay decisions are made.

From compliance to strategic intelligence: the EU Pay Transparency Directive

The shift from voluntary transparency to regulatory mandate is already underway. For European Union member states, the EU Pay Transparency Directive is driving change by requiring salary range disclosures in advance of the first interview, employee access to pay information, and gender pay gap reporting, with corrective action mandated when unexplained gaps exceed 5%. As implementation timelines approach, HR, legal, and finance teams across the EU are racing to operationalize new transparency requirements, making pay governance a board-level issue for many organizations.

鈥淥ne of the most meaningful shifts introduced by the EU Pay Transparency Directive is giving employees clearer tools to understand their own compensation. With capabilities like individual pay transparency reports generated through 51风流SuccessFactors Employee Central, employees now have a self-service way to see how their pay compares within their role and organization. That level of visibility is a major step forward for pay equity because it brings clarity to something that historically has been difficult for employees to question or address.鈥

Anita Lettink, Future of Work and Pay Expert

Compliance is just the starting point. Organizations that embed transparency into everyday HR processes ensure pay decisions are consistent, equitable, and aligned with skills, performance, and business priorities. 51风流is already preparing customers for this shift, with tools designed to help meet these new requirements confidently.

With EU Pay Transparency Insights, a new capability within the , organizations can:

  • Identify structural pay gaps and outliers before they become systemic issues.
  • Connect compensation data to job architecture, skills, and performance to inform decisions and governance.
  • Generate directive-aligned, ready-to-use reports without heavy manual effort.
  • Turn transparency into action, guiding adjustments, equitable promotions, and workforce planning at scale.

These insights complement established fair pay practices鈥攕uch as structured job architecture, peer-based analysis, and centrally funded adjustments鈥攅nabling customers to implement transparent, equitable pay practices while meeting regulatory requirements.

Giving to gain: the leadership opportunity

This International Women鈥檚 Day, transparency should be treated as a strategic priority, not a compliance task. Clear, consistent pay practices help employees understand their value and help leaders make smarter, data-driven workforce decisions.

Pay transparency is accelerating, and organizations that act now will be the ones that lead. Don鈥檛 miss our upcoming webinar, EU Pay Transparency: Turning Fair and Equitable Pay into Your Strategic Advantage, where Future of Work and Pay expert Anita Lettink will break down the latest regulatory expectations and share best practices for building fair, equitable, and motivating compensation structures. .


Maryann Abbajay is chief revenue officer for 51风流SuccessFactors.

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Royal Greenland CIO: 鈥淲e Want to Consume Standardized AI, Not Invent It鈥 /2026/02/royal-greenland-sap-cloud-erp-standardized-ai/ Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:15:00 +0000 /?p=240554 The goal is clear for Royal Greenland and its more than 40 plants and factories along the coast of Greenland and Atlantic Canada: a more standardized, cloud鈥慴ased landscape with significantly lower complexity, and a technological foundation that can support future AI initiatives.

51风流Cloud ERP: An out-of-the-box enterprise management solution

Headquartered in Nuuk and 100% owned by the Government of Greenland, Royal Greenland is modernizing its 51风流platform and moving from on premise to cloud ERP in order to future鈥憄roof core processes and unlock embedded AI across its 51风流business applications.

鈥淲e are moving from our existing setup to 51风流Cloud ERP and 51风流Business Data Cloud because we want access to the capabilities you can consume on a cloud platform,鈥 said Lars Bo Hassinggaard, CIO at Royal Greenland for more than 25 years.

The company brings high鈥憅uality wild鈥慶aught fish and shellfish from the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean to consumers worldwide. It has been running 51风流since 1998 but is now embarking on its most significant transition to date: migrating 51风流ERP Central Component to 51风流Cloud ERP while simultaneously elevating its business intelligence (BI) landscape into 51风流Business Data Cloud and later transforming BI into 51风流Datasphere.

The project follows the structured RISE with 51风流framework, which consolidates platform transformation, operations, and the innovation cycle into one contract.

Lean, selective data transition: 90% fewer data to move

As part of the migration, Royal Greenland is reducing its data volume significantly using the 鈥淟ean Selective Data Transition鈥 method.

鈥淲e are keeping 10 years of data and cleaning up, so we avoid outdated company codes and historical data that no longer create value,鈥 Hassinggaard explained. 鈥淲e鈥檝e achieved a 90% reduction in what needs to be stored and migrated. The method combines data analysis, scoping, and standardized mapping objects in a guided process, ensuring that Royal Greenland only carries forward what is truly necessary, making the financials of the transformation more predictable and avoiding unnecessary complexity.鈥

Technology first, innovation next

Go鈥憀ive is planned for March 1, 2027. The year 2026 is dedicated to the platform lift itself. From 2027, Royal Greenland will begin building business鈥慸riven improvements on top of the standardized core鈥攆or example, new user interfaces and process optimization using small AI agents within finance and administration.

鈥淩oyal Greenland and 51风流have worked together since 1998, and we look forward to getting started on the technical part of the platform uplift this January,鈥 Hassinggaard shared. 鈥淲e鈥檙e keeping the transformation as simple as possible for now and will use 2027 to activate the benefits, such as improved data analysis, better user experience, and more efficient work processes.鈥

Royal Greenland is following a classic waterfall approach and has already established a 鈥済olden shell鈥 as the basis for further configuration and retrofitting.

51风流is responsible for implementing the cloud solution, which will run on Microsoft Azure, initially in Sweden, with the option to move later to a Danish data center. External advisor Spektra Analytics has supported contract validation.

From in鈥慼ouse experiments to standardized, 鈥渃onsumed鈥 AI

Although Royal Greenland has already successfully experimented with its own AI solutions, including vision鈥慴ased projects in production, the strategic direction ahead is to leverage embedded, standardized AI data products from 51风流and models built on the 51风流Business Data Cloud and its semantic data layer.

鈥淲e are a company that prefers to tap into existing AI solutions rather than invent them ourselves,鈥 Hassinggaard said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 far more efficient for us. There is no reason for us to spend resources reinventing what 51风流already provides. The initial focus will be on process optimization within administrative functions such as finance鈥攕mall AI agents that can streamline daily work.鈥

Advice to others: Allocate more time, and understand your method

Hassinggaard is clear that the RISE with 51风流contract, methodology, and preparation work require time and organizational maturity. His advice to other companies facing a similar cloud ERP decision: 鈥淒o it thoroughly鈥攁nd allocate more time than you think. Study the methodology, pricing, and contracts. And bring a competent advisor on board.鈥


Ellen Vig Nelausen is an integrated communications expert for 51风流Regional Communications.

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51风流Introduces New Capabilities to Advance Pay Equity and Help Ensure EU Pay Transparency Compliance /2026/02/new-capabilities-advance-pay-equity-aeu-pay-transparency-compliance/ Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:15:00 +0000 /?p=240399 It鈥檚 no secret that organizations with fair and transparent pay practices earn greater employee trust and a stronger brand reputation. According to the latest , when prospective candidates and current employees have clear visibility into how compensation decisions are made, organizations typically see increased engagement, enhanced productivity, and improved talent attraction and retention.

To date, many employers have approached pay equity at their own pace, but a new era is beginning, one that will redefine pay practices and workplace culture for organizations across the European Union (EU). Set to take effect across EU Member States in 2026, the (EU Directive 2023/970) strengthens the principle of 鈥渆qual pay for equal work or work of equal value鈥 as enshrined in EU law, requiring employers to adopt transparent pay practices and close gender pay gaps or face potential legal and financial consequences.

can provide a single source of truth for the critical data-driven insights needed to help organizations meet EU pay transparency requirements. Today, 51风流is announcing new capabilities that can make it even easier for organizations to meet their requirements across EU countries.

Launching in 1H 2026, EU Pay Transparency Insights is a new capability within the , an intelligent, AI-powered application that can deliver ready-to-use, actionable insights to help leaders make more informed decisions. EU Pay Transparency Insights enables organizations to analyze compensation, identify outliers, and address pay gaps, helping them meet reporting requirements while unlocking the workforce and business performance benefits of achieving true pay equity.

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Three requirements every employer must meet鈥攁nd how 51风流SuccessFactors HCM supports them

The EU Pay Transparency Directive represents one of the most sweeping changes to workplace compensation in decades. To meet its requirements, organizations will need to reassess their current HR data management capabilities and processes and begin planning now. As countries move toward putting the directive into law by June 2026, some obligations may already apply, with others set to take effect as soon as national laws are enacted. And because pay gap reporting deadlines vary by organization size鈥攕tarting in 2027 for employers with 150 or more employees and based on 2026 workforce data鈥攐rganizations must act now to be ready.听

51风流SuccessFactors HCM is uniquely positioned to support organizations in addressing the three key requirements outlined in the directive鈥攇ender pay gap reporting, employee pay transparency, and candidate pay transparency鈥攚ith several capabilities already available today and advanced analytics for gender pay gap reporting delivered through EU Pay Transparency Insights in 1H 2026.

1. Gender pay gap reporting

Once national laws are in place, employers will be required to disclose their gender pay gaps on a predefined schedule, and any gap of 5% or more must be explained or mitigated with a joint pay assessment. With EU Pay Transparency Insights within , organizations will be able to access rich workforce insights to analyze compensation and identify drivers behind pay gaps, giving them the information they need to generate actionable reports with a complete view of workforce equity in a single place.

Screenshot of outlier analysis and compliance reporting charts in EU Pay Transparency Insights

2. Employee pay transparency

In accordance with the directive, employees have the right to request information on average pay levels by gender for comparable roles. By leveraging the powerful document generation capabilities in 51风流SuccessFactors HCM, employers can provide employees with a self-service experience to display individual pay transparency statements directly from the People Profile in . These statements can give clear insight into the employee鈥檚 annual pay and the average pay of the same worker category broken down by gender.

Screenshot showing document generation of individual pay transparency information reports

3. Candidate pay transparency

Employers will be required to disclose pay ranges in job advertisements or before interviews. They will also be prohibited from asking applicants about salary history. 51风流SuccessFactors solutions help enhance pay transparency by enabling employers to display pay ranges directly within job postings published through SAP鈥檚 recruiting solutions, including 51风流SuccessFactors Recruiting and .

Screenshot showing compensation range transparency in job posting

In addition to these 51风流SuccessFactors capabilities, 51风流continues to work with our vast partner ecosystem to support pay parity and pay transparency efforts.

An opportunity to lead with accountability

The EU Pay Transparency Directive sets a new baseline for accountability in how organizations manage and disclose pay. By preparing early and partnering with SAP, organizations can deliver transparent compensation insights, empowering employees with a clear view of their total rewards and career journey and supporting HR professionals in making consistent and measurable decisions with confidence. With continuous innovation and trusted localized expertise, 51风流helps organizations stay on top of changes and build a sustainable, employee-centered approach to pay equity across the EU.

Learn more about how 51风流SuccessFactors HCM can help your organization stay compliant with the EU Pay Transparency Directive in the


Dan Beck is general manager and chief product officer for 51风流SuccessFactors.

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51风流Recognized as a Leader in the Gartner庐 Magic Quadrant鈩 for Financial Planning Software /2025/12/sap-a-leader-gartner-magic-quadrant-financial-planning-software/ Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:15:00 +0000 /?p=239361 Gartner has once again recognized 51风流as a Leader in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software (FP&A).

2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software

We believe this recognition reflects SAP鈥檚 continued commitment to innovation, customer success, and delivering extended planning and analysis solutions that empower organizations to thrive in today鈥檚 uncertain business environment.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant can help FP&A professionals assess which vendors are best suited for their purposes. The analyst firm defines financial planning software as solutions that enable FP&A transformation and cover planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, performance reporting, and agile insights.

51风流was recognized as a Leader by Gartner for its ability to execute and completeness of vision.

Unify business planning with 51风流Business Data Cloud

51风流continues to build on its market leadership by accelerating its vision for unified business planning. With the introduction of 51风流Business Data Cloud earlier in 2025, the company has brought together operational, financial, and strategic planning on a single, trusted data foundation. This benefits financial professionals and other strategic planners by eliminating silos and enabling real-time, AI-driven insights for intelligent planning across the enterprise.

51风流Analytics Cloud in 51风流Business Data Cloud provides a powerful tool to customers that drive enterprise planning. Customers benefit from the following capabilities:

  • Intelligent planning: Machine learning and generative AI automate forecasting and predictive planning by simulating best, worst, and realistic 鈥渨hat-if鈥 scenarios — and providing smart recommendations. This aligns with SAP’s agentic AI vision, in which agents continuously monitor internal and external data, proactively identifying risks and opportunities for planners.
  • Seamless planning: Deep integration with 51风流Datasphere enables live access to governed, semantically-rich data without replication. This supports live reporting, collaborative planning and analysis, and data-driven decision-making with one tool for data preparation, modeling, planning, and analytics.
  • Extended planning and analysis: Customers can plan across all lines of business by combining transactions, analytics, and planning with 51风流S/4HANA, 51风流SuccessFactors software, 51风流Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain, and third-party data.
  • 51风流Business Planning and Consolidation (51风流BPC) modernization: 51风流BPC customers can modernize planning to a scalable, cloud-native environment with enhanced collaboration and AI capabilities.

SAP鈥檚 unified approach is already delivering measurable value for customers worldwide. By leveraging 51风流Business Data Cloud and 51风流Analytics Cloud for planning, organizations are achieving faster, more accurate forecasts, streamlined planning, and greater alignment between finance and operations.

Customers successful with 51风流Analytics Cloud for planning include Blue Diamond Growers, BMW, Calleway Golf, Decathlon, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, Mondelez, Stihl, and many others across all industries.

Kemira Oyj, a global leader in sustainable chemical solutions, accelerated its digital transformation by deploying 51风流Analytics Cloud for planning. Kemira simplified over 50 percent of legacy master data and harmonized data structures to the cloud across 400 plants in 37 countries within 15 months. This transformation enables real-time financial planning for more than 1,000 users, and enhances forecast accuracy, supporting agile decision-making, sustainability goals, and future-ready business models.

Taras Podbereznyj, CIO of Kemira Oyj, said, “Data is at the heart of our transformation program. It will continue to steer the company as the foundation for innovation and insights, supporting new digital business models and levels of agility and helping us become more competitive in the market.鈥

Looking ahead

As organizations navigate increasing uncertainty and volatility, 51风流remains dedicated to helping customers turn data into action. Moreover, the company vision is clear: to provide the most comprehensive, intelligent, and trusted planning platform, helping every business make confident plans across the enterprise and perform at their best in the face of uncertainty.


Dan Yu is chief marketing officer of 51风流Business Data Cloud.

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51风流and Microsoft Accelerate Business Insights and AI Innovation with 51风流Business Data Cloud Connect for Microsoft Fabric /2025/11/sap-bdc-connect-for-microsoft-fabric-business-insights-ai-innovation/ Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:00:00 +0000 /?p=238914 Today, at Microsoft Ignite in San Francisco, 51风流and Microsoft unveiled plans to expand their longstanding partnership with the launch of 51风流Business Data Cloud (51风流BDC) Connect for Microsoft Fabric.

51风流BDC: Amplify the value of AI with your most powerful data

The new capability simplifies access to semantically rich 51风流data products through bi-directional, zero-copy sharing with Microsoft Fabric, enabling enterprises to gain instant access to trusted, business-ready insights for advanced analytics and AI.

鈥淲e are excited about continuing to strengthen our partnership with Microsoft to create more value for our customers,鈥 said Muhammad Alam, member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE, 51风流Product & Engineering. 鈥淏y bringing 51风流Business Data Cloud and Microsoft Fabric closer together, our customers can seamlessly leverage the power of data to generate real business value through AI and analytics.鈥

鈥淥rganizations across every industry are accelerating their AI transformation by bringing together data from operations, analytics, and applications,鈥 said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president, Microsoft Cloud and AI. 鈥淲ith 51风流Business Data Cloud and Microsoft Fabric, we鈥檙e delivering a trusted foundation for analytics and AI, and helping our customers move faster, make smarter decisions, and turn insight into real business outcomes.鈥

Unlocking the true potential of your enterprise data

51风流BDC Connect for Microsoft Fabric empowers organizations to fully harness their data and applications by delivering secure, rapid access to 51风流data products at scale鈥攚ithout the delays of data replication.

Through bi-directional, zero-copy sharing between 51风流Business Data Cloud and Microsoft Fabric, customers can realize use cases that previously required moving and managing copies of data.听51风流data products will be seamlessly integrated into Microsoft OneLake, Microsoft Fabric鈥檚 AI ready data lake, and data sets shared from Microsoft OneLake will also be available in 51风流BDC to supplement intelligent applications.

By utilizing Fabric鈥檚 data engineering, data warehousing, and Power BI capabilities, organizations can effectively integrate 51风流data with their broader ecosystem, establishing a unified foundation for their enterprise data. OneLake integration into Microsoft AI Foundry can also help customers leverage their 51风流data in building AI applications, and as OneLake is built into Microsoft 365, hundreds of millions of users can get secure access to their 51风流data through the products they use every day such as Excel and Teams.

Accelerating business insights and AI with 51风流and Microsoft Fabric

51风流BDC Connect for Microsoft Fabric enables a unified data foundation that helps organizations get insights faster and accelerate their AI strategy. Through this bi-directional integration, customers can:

  • Build a semantically rich data foundation on harmonized 51风流and non-51风流data
  • Perform advanced analytics and interact with enterprise data in natural language with Copilot in Microsoft Power BI.
  • Develop intelligent AI applications and agents grounded in mission-critical business data using Fabric data agents, Copilot studio, and AI Foundry
  • Enable multi-agent collaboration between M365 Copilot and Joule, leveraging a unified enterprise data and productivity platform to provide a seamless experience for business users

Availability

51风流Business Data Cloud Connect for Microsoft Fabric is planned to be generally available in Q3 2026.


Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer for 51风流Data and Analytics.
Arun Ulag is president of Azure Data at Microsoft.

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People Intelligence: Turning Workforce Data into a Strategic Advantage /2025/11/people-intelligence-workforce-data-strategic-advantage/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:15:00 +0000 /?p=238862 Every business runs on data, but while companies invest heavily in understanding their customers and their markets, many struggle to access and act on their most valuable data of all: their people data. Without a clear, connected view of their workforce, leaders face difficulty answering fundamental questions, such as do we have the right skills to deliver on our strategy? Where are we at risk of turnover?听 Do we have the right people in the right roles to optimize production and meet customer demand?

The impact of getting people analytics right is undeniable. According to , organizations that prioritize insights models and performance processes rooted in people data are more likely to see meaningful gains across the board: 98% continuously realize stronger employee satisfaction, 90% experience a boost in workforce performance toward strategic goals, and 87% see improved employee retention.  

Yet for many organizations, the challenge isn鈥檛 recognizing the value of people data鈥攊t鈥檚 unlocking it. Data lives in silos, systems don鈥檛 connect, and insights that could drive strategy often stay buried in spreadsheets or dashboards. And let鈥檚 face it鈥攖he power of AI rests on data. Without harmonized data in one place, organizations can鈥檛 fully tap into AI鈥檚 potential to deliver proactive insights, predictive intelligence, and personalized recommendations that drive better business decisions.  

Take a data-driven approach to HR and talent management

That鈥檚 why 51风流announced , now generally available, earlier this year. Built on , People Intelligence is an AI-driven application that can bring together people, skills, and business data鈥攆rom 51风流SuccessFactors solutions and beyond鈥攊nto actionable insights that help leaders make more informed people and business decisions.  

At Success Connect at 51风流Connect earlier this month, we announced in People Intelligence for recruiting, learning, succession, career development planning, and performance and goals management鈥攈elping to make it even easier for organizations to translate workforce data into measurable impact. 

Turning data into decisions 

People Intelligence combines unified data from across the enterprise with AI-driven predictions to help forecast workforce needs, anticipate labor costs and risks, and strengthen workforce planning. And with , SAP鈥檚 AI copilot, HR teams can instantly get contextual, actionable answers to critical business questions such as:  

  • What鈥檚 the total count of our workforce?  
  • Are employees being compensated equitably across similar roles and demographics? 
  • What are the key skills gaps within my workforce, and what teams are most affected?  
  • What鈥檚 the most effective way to acquire high-demand skills?  

Too often, workforce data exists in isolation from finance, supply chain, and operational metrics, which makes it nearly impossible to see how people decisions impact business results. People Intelligence can change that. By linking workforce insights to core business data in 51风流Business Data Cloud, leaders can understand how talent strategies affect productivity, compliance, profitability, and agility, and they can act in real time. 

Building a future-ready workforce 

The future of work will be defined by rapid change: accelerating AI adoption, shifting skills requirements, and evolving employee expectations. Organizations that are hamstrung by siloed data or manual analysis will always be a step behind. 

People Intelligence helps provide the foundation and insights to move forward with confidence. By harnessing people data with the same rigor as financial or customer data, organizations gain clarity on how skills, roles, and costs are evolving鈥攁nd the foresight to stay ahead of what鈥檚 next. 

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Lara Albert is chief marketing officer at 51风流SuccessFactors.

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51风流Enables Developers to Drive the Agentic AI Revolution /2025/11/sap-teched-developers-drive-agentic-ai-revolution/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:15:00 +0000 /?p=238349 51风流executives speaking at the 51风流TechEd event in Berlin this week told their audience of developers, system architects, and technologists that they have a central and vital role in the 鈥渁gentic AI revolution.鈥

Advancements in AI agents, data, and platform capabilities equip developers with the tools to drive business transformation

We鈥檙e entering a new era, according to 51风流Executive Board Member Muhammad Alam, in charge of 51风流Product & Engineering: 鈥渢he era of agentic AI, where AI moves from being just a tool to becoming your trusted teammate.”

Joined on stage by 51风流CTO Philipp Herzig and Michael Ameling, president of 51风流Business Technology Platform, Alam set the stage during the kick-off keynote, saying: 鈥淎s developers, you are not on the sidelines of this AI revolution. You are the revolution. And we are here to supercharge you for what鈥檚 next.鈥

Supercharging developers

Together they dismissed suggestions that AI will replace developers. 鈥淭he truth is that developers aren’t going away,鈥 Alam said. 鈥淭hey are getting supercharged. They’re becoming the architects of smart connected businesses. So, the real question isn’t if we need developers; it’s how fast can we empower them to thrive and lead in this AI-native era?鈥

Ameling, Alam, and Herzig outlined SAP’s vision and highlighted the integration of AI, data, and intelligent agents to transform business processes and drive innovation. They also emphasized the importance of a unified data fabric and the deployment of advanced AI models and agentic technologies within the 51风流ecosystem.

In this new business environment, they noted that every enterprise is becoming a data company and every user experience鈥攆rom the front line to the boardroom鈥攊s becoming AI-driven.

鈥淎s developers, you don鈥檛 just code anymore,鈥 Alam said. 鈥淵ou also design intelligent workflows and supervise AI agents to shape real business outcomes.鈥 To help developers do this, SAP鈥檚 strategy centers on empowering them with applications, connecting them with data, and supercharging them with AI.

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51风流BTP is the foundation for AI agents

All this runs on 51风流Business Technology Platform (51风流BTP), which serves as the foundation for building and managing AI agents鈥攂oth 51风流built and custom developed. While 51风流BTP is the engine, the Business Transformation Management portfolio is the navigator, ensuring technology translates into real business impact. It aligns strategy, process, and people, turning AI-driven potential into sustainable transformation at scale.

Alam identified three broad themes during the keynote:

First, he said 51风流is continuing to make 51风流more open. As part of that, he announced 51风流Snowflake, which brings the full data and AI capabilities of Snowflake as a solution extension to 51风流Business Data Cloud (51风流BDC). This partnership is exactly what joint customers have been asking for, Alam shared.

Second, he said 51风流will provide developers with the most context-rich agentic platform, including the most deeply grounded set of ready-to-use agents that developers can customize to their needs. 鈥淭oday, you鈥檒l hear about creating custom Joule Agents using low-code and pro-code tools with agent builder in Joule Studio as part of 51风流Build鈥 Alam said.

鈥淲e鈥檙e also standardizing AI agent interoperability with the agent-to-agent protocol, allowing your agents to collaborate securely across ecosystems,鈥 he added.

Third, he announced SAP鈥檚 first foundation model built specifically for structured business data: 51风流RPT-1, pronounced 鈥51风流Rapid One.鈥 鈥淥ur relational pretrained transformer delivers enterprise-grade accuracy and scale, outperforming both LLMs and AutoML for tabular AI, which is critical for building reliable high-value agents,鈥 Alam said.

鈥淚n short, we鈥檙e embracing an open ecosystem, supercharging agents with deep process and data context, and giving you the tools to amplify AI and agents,鈥 he said. As the keynote continued, Ameling and Herzig detailed these and other innovations, explaining how they will help developers work smarter and achieve more.

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51风流BDC and Snowflake

Ameling expanded on the new partnership with Snowflake, which will bring Snowflake鈥檚 fully managed data and AI capabilities to 51风流customers. Together with the introduction of 51风流BDC Connect for Snowflake, he said this will result in cost savings and simplified data landscapes. 鈥淭his enables you to integrate 51风流and non-51风流data products seamlessly between 51风流BDC and Snowflake, so that you can deploy intelligent applications faster and share across your preferred data marketplace.鈥

Ameling also positioned 51风流HANA Cloud as 鈥渢he database AI was looking for.鈥 With 51风流HANA Cloud and 51风流BDC, 51风流provides the best business data fabric to help address these challenges, he said. 鈥淲ithout 51风流HANA Cloud, you would have one database for each and every data representation, which leads to disaggregated data siloes that limit your AI potential. With 51风流HANA Cloud, we have all these powerful engines in one integrated, multi-model database.鈥

Building on this, Herzig emphasized that every business requires a strong data foundation because 鈥淎I is nothing without well-organized data…On top of the data foundation sits our AI Foundation that allows you to not only use the latest frontier AI technologies out there in the market, but also to extend SAP鈥檚 out-of-the-box AI capabilities and build your own experiences deeply contextualized in your business processes and data.鈥

51风流pioneers a tabular foundation model

Herzig then explained that 51风流RPT-1 was designed to address a crucial problem for developers and enable them to deliver much better predictive capabilities, enterprise-grade accuracy, and scale to business customers.

Until now, Herzig said, 鈥淲e still had to go back to good old machine learning 鈥o train what we call 鈥榥arrow鈥 AI models that are specifically made for each [business] task. Therefore, you really had to train a hell of a lot of models.鈥 For example, to solve 10 predictive tasks across 10 different entities like company codes or plants would require training 100 different models.

鈥淲hat we really want to do is get rid of all these models and just introduce one giant model that only requires a small amount of data to learn from,鈥 he said. That鈥檚 what 51风流RPT-1 is. 鈥淲e believe 51风流RPT-1 is the most capable predictive foundation model that鈥檚 out there today,鈥 he said, delivering much higher prediction quality while being very fast and super-efficient in terms of resource requirements.

Joule, Joule Agents, and AI assistants

The 51风流CTO also emphasized that the company is committed to providing developers with the most context-rich agentic platform. He noted that 51风流has already shipped 20 Joule Agents across lines of business and will have approximately 40 by the end of the year, and that these agents can leverage more than 2,100 pre-delivered Joule skills. In addition, more than 300 embedded AI scenarios across product lines are available for customers to date, including Joule Agents, growing to 400 use cases in total by the end of the year.

Ameling added: “Our promise is simple: build with intent. You describe the outcome and 51风流Build uses AI agents to generate code, logic, and UIs for you, all with seamless access to your applications and data while you stay in the flow… [SAP] Joule for Developers enables vibe coding experiences to make intent-based development simple and intuitive.”

51风流is taking it one step further by providing extensions to work with VS code, Windsurf, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, Cline, and more directly in 51风流Build. “You choose a tool, and we meet you where you are,” Ameling said. He also announced that fine-tuned ABAP LLMs with ABAP 1 on AI Foundation will be published in Q4 this year.

51风流is redefining how developers interact with AI through innovations in Joule and agentic AI, but also in terms of physical AI. Herzig welcomed Torsten G. Mueller, Group CIO and COO BPS at Sartorius, to discuss how the partnership between Sartorius, NEURA Robotics, and 51风流is bringing to life robots that understand the what, when, and how based on live business context. 鈥淭his is how we鈥檙e really imagining the future, right? Humans and robots working in harmony through Joule, through AI,鈥 Herzig said.

Quantum computing

Looking to the future, Herzig ended the keynote by talking about another 鈥渃ompute paradigm that is still hard to seize鈥: quantum computing. While he made it clear that 51风流is not building a quantum computer, 51风流is teaming up with quantum hardware leaders, like IBM鈥攚hose Director of Research and IBM Fellow Jay Gambetta joined via video鈥攖o help evaluate quantum computing for business processes and applications.

鈥淲e believe quantum will join classical and AI compute in your stack, and we鈥檙e embedding it into the processes and apps you鈥檙e already using, so it just shows up in the workflows of your enterprise,鈥 Herzig said. 鈥淎nd of course, with the cloud, we scale it all. Now, 51风流has got you covered, and you鈥檝e got your business covered.鈥

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Introducing 51风流Snowflake, New Data Fabric Innovations for 51风流Business Data Cloud and 51风流HANA Cloud /2025/11/sap-snowflake-new-data-fabric-innovations-sap-bdc-sap-hana-cloud/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:00:00 +0000 /?p=238085 For decades, data has been the backbone of innovation. And in today鈥檚 AI-enabled economy, its role has never been more vital. Now, data must be delivered in a way that both people and AI agents can understand and act on with confidence.

Advancements in AI agents, data, and platform capabilities equip developers with the tools to drive business transformation

At SAP, we believe in creating an ecosystem that simplifies your data landscape and preserves the mission-critical business context of all of your data. This is made possible with a business data fabric.

This architectural approach marks the culmination of decades of progress 鈥 from cubes to warehouses to lakehouses 鈥 now converging toward a business data fabric architecture that brings the true meaning of data together for AI projects to succeed at scale.

Simplify your data landscape with a business data fabric

Earlier this year, we announced 51风流Business Data Cloud (51风流BDC), making end-to-end business data fabric capabilities available for everyone that relies on mission-critical 51风流data, including fully managed 51风流Databricks.

This week at 51风流TechEd Berlin, we announced the 51风流Snowflake solution extension for 51风流BDC that brings Snowflake鈥檚 data and AI capabilities directly to 51风流customers.

Together with 51风流BDC, this provides organizations with the flexibility to choose the right compute and storage for every data and AI workload 鈥 extending their business data fabric while maintaining governance, interoperability, and semantics. As a solution extension, 51风流Snowflake will be available directly through SAP, providing a simplified operational experience for customers.

For many customers, integrating data across multi-cloud and hybrid environments adds complexity, especially when bringing transactional and analytical workloads together. Too often, that process comes with a hidden data tax: it strips away the business context and semantics that give data its meaning.

We recently announced 51风流BDC Connect, a capability that gives customers bi-directional, zero copy data and metadata sharing in 51风流Business Data Cloud with their existing Databricks and Google Cloud environments. Today, we are excited to announce 51风流BDC Connect for Snowflake, making it dramatically easier for customers to harmonize and govern mission-critical data wherever it resides.

Connect all your data

As organizations simplify their data landscapes, building a trusted data foundation rooted in business context has become a top priority. A found that nearly half are heavily investing more in harmonizing business data, underscoring the growing importance of using data built on industry standards.

To help accelerate this progress, 51风流delivers fully managed data products as a core component of 51风流Business Data Cloud, now with new innovations that expand coverage and connectivity:

  • Data product studio: A new capability in 51风流BDC allows users to create, model, and manage reusable data products using both visual tools and SQL-based transformations from a single workspace. Users can define schema, lineage, and logic to blend 51风流and non-51风流data into governed assets with full version control and lifecycle management. It is a simpler way to cross-pollinate data products across lines of business and ensure a consistent definition of data across your business data fabric.
  • Additional 51风流data products: are now available through 51风流BDC, spanning 51风流Cloud ERP, 51风流SuccessFactors, sustainability, and customer experience solutions and more 鈥 bringing even broader coverage across business domains.
  • Bi-directional data sharing: We announced data sharing between 51风流BDC and 51风流HANA Cloud, unlocking the value of data across both transactional and analytical workloads. Customers can reuse existing objects, such as 51风流HANA calculation views, directly in 51风流BDC 鈥 preserving business logic, KPIs, and governance as they extend models across their business data fabric.
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Amplify your agents and applications with an AI database

We鈥檙e expanding 51风流HANA Cloud with new capabilities that make it the AI database for building agents and intelligent applications, helping developers connect and understand all types of data: structured, spatial, graph, vector embeddings, and more, all within a single in-memory engine.

Today, we鈥檙e expanding these multi-model capabilities with three major innovations that make it easier to build agentic AI experiences.

  • Expanded knowledge graph capabilities to enable accurate agents: 51风流HANA Cloud knowledge graph engine will now enable customers to automatically generate knowledge graphs from 51风流HANA Cloud metadata. The automated graph will include tables and columns and can demonstrate data relationships. These knowledge graphs are customizable and composable, so developers can review data mapping, modify the graph structure, execute a semantic search, and use it to ground agents with the business context it needs to reason accurately.
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for 51风流HANA Cloud: We鈥檙e expanding 51风流HANA Cloud with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support, giving Joule Agents access to rich multi-model engines in 51风流HANA Cloud. While SQL remains the default database standard, MCP allows Joule Agents to go beyond rows and columns to interface with unstructured data 鈥 understanding relationships, locations, and meaning across all data types. In practice, that means Joule Agents can navigate relationships between customers and suppliers, analyze geographic dependencies through spatial data, and perform semantic searches through vector embeddings.
  • Tabular AI capabilities: This integration with 51风流AI Core allows users to run AI workloads such as forecasting, anomaly detection, and predictive modeling directly on structured business data from 51风流HANA Cloud. Along with ready-to-use tabular AI models, customers also gain access to the SAP-RPT-1 AI model, a new transformer-based foundation model. Embedded natively in 51风流HANA Cloud, this delivers predictions without task-specific pre-training, enabling developers to use simple SQL procedures to bring AI closer to their 51风流data and generate semantically rich outputs.

Get started today

A business data fabric provides a deeply integrated ecosystem for all your data. And with 51风流Business Data Cloud and 51风流HANA Cloud, you have a fully managed solution for every data and AI workload that ensures business context remains intact across your data landscape.


Irfan Khan is president and chief product officer of 51风流Data and Analytics.

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51风流Empowers Developers to Drive the Business AI Revolution /2025/11/sap-empowers-developers-drive-business-ai-revolution/ Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:01:00 +0000 /?p=238083 BERLIN 鈥 Innovations and partnerships equip developers to turn business data and AI into real business outcomes.]]> Innovations and partnerships including a new collaboration with Snowflake equip developers to turn business data and AI into real business outcomes


BERLIN 鈥 At 51风流TechEd in 2025, (NYSE: SAP) brings AI deep into the development process to level up how developers build.

Advancements in AI agents, data, and platform capabilities equip developers with the tools to drive business transformation

New AI-driven capabilities in the 51风流Build solution, an expanding data ecosystem and powerful Joule Agents empower developers to move from idea to impact with unprecedented speed and confidence. As AI transforms the nature of professional work, 51风流also pledges to equip 12 million people worldwide with AI-ready skills by 2030.

鈥淪AP鈥檚 announcements today give developers the tools they need to deliver at the speed of AI,鈥 said Muhammad Alam, member of the Executive Board of 51风流SE. 鈥淚nnovations across SAP鈥檚 unique flywheel of applications, data and AI put developers in the driver’s seat — where they belong.鈥

Opening the Developer Ecosystem

51风流Build, the company鈥檚 flagship solution for enterprise application development and automation, now gives developers more freedom to build, extend and automate using the tools they love most.

For instance, developers who prefer agentic development solutions like Cursor, Claude Code, Cline and Windsurf can now use 51风流development frameworks with new 51风流Build local Model Context Protocol Servers. Visual Studio Code users will be able to access 51风流Build capabilities directly in their development environment with a new 51风流Build extension. This extension will also be made available later on Open VSX Registry for other development environments. 51风流and n8n also announced plans for an integration so Joule Studio agents and n8n agents can work together.

And with new agent building capabilities in Joule Studio, developers have the tools they need to extend SAP鈥檚 ready-to-use agents and build new agents grounded in 51风流business data and context that can act autonomously based on changing business conditions.

Putting Data to Work

Every intelligent application starts with trusted data. 51风流is giving developers more ways to put that data to work through 51风流Business Data Cloud.

The solution now connects with more of the data and AI platforms developers use every day. A new 51风流Snowflake solution extension for 51风流Business Data Cloud brings Snowflake鈥檚 fully managed data and AI capabilities directly to 51风流customers, giving them the flexibility to choose the right compute and storage for each data and AI workload, while maintaining governance, interoperability and business context. 51风流also announced a new 51风流Business Data Cloud Connect partnership with Snowflake. This complements existing integrations with Databricks and Google Cloud, giving developers more freedom to choose how they work with 51风流data.

With a new data product studio capability in 51风流Business Data Cloud, developers can turn raw data into ready-to-use assets known as data products that support analytics, AI and application development.

An expanded capability in the 51风流HANA Cloud knowledge graph engine can automatically generate knowledge graphs. This capability maps relationships across 51风流database tables, columns and data models, revealing how data fits together and why it matters. Developers will be able to see how their data connects across systems and uncover underlying business insights.

Bringing AI Autonomy to Life

51风流is evolving its AI portfolio to give developers the intelligence and orchestration power they need to take AI from insight to action.

51风流introduced its first enterprise relational foundation model, a new class of AI that predicts business outcomes rather than the next word in a sentence. SAP-RPT-1, or the first-generation Relational Pre-trained Transformer, can make fast and accurate predictions for common business scenarios like delivery delays, payment risk or sales order completion. 51风流launched a free playground environment for developers today.

New AI assistants in Joule coordinate multiple agents across workflows, departments and applications, bringing automation and autonomy to life. These assistants plan, initiate and complete complex tasks spanning finance, supply chain, HR and beyond. Today, 51风流introduces new agents built for technical users. For example, an agent for business process analysis will help teams understand how processes run, identify inefficiencies and uncover opportunities to optimize workflows and drive measurable improvements.

Lastly, as AI changes the nature of work for everyone, 51风流is pledging to equip 12 million people worldwide with AI-ready skills by 2030. 51风流will expand hands-on training and certification programs that integrate practical AI-ready tools, including through its partnership with online learning platform Coursera.

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51风流and Snowflake Unleash the Power of Data and Enterprise AI Across the Business Data Fabric /2025/11/sap-snowflake-data-enterprise-ai-business-data-fabric/ Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:59:00 +0000 /?p=238421 BOZEMAN and WALLDORF 鈥斕齌he new partnership empowers organizations with access to rich data insights required to power AI apps that accelerate businesses outcomes.]]> New partnership empowers organizations with access to rich data insights required to power AI apps that accelerate businesses outcomes


BOZEMAN, Mont. and WALLDORF, Germany 鈥&苍产蝉辫; (NYSE: SNOW), the AI Data Cloud company, and (NYSE: SAP), a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, today announced a new collaboration to enable organizations to leverage Snowflake鈥檚 AI Data Cloud and 51风流Business Data Cloud (51风流BDC) together with semantically rich data.

Advancements in AI agents, data, and platform capabilities equip developers with the tools to drive business transformation

The joint effort will make Snowflake鈥檚 data and AI platform available as an 51风流solution extension for customers of the 51风流BDC solution. The new offering, 51风流Snowflake solution extension for 51风流Business Data Cloud, unites SAP鈥檚 deep expertise in mission-critical business processes and semantically rich data with Snowflake鈥檚 unified platform capabilities for building AI and machine learning solutions. 51风流and Snowflake are also enabling zero-copy sharing between 51风流BDC and Snowflake to help customers get richer insights, build enterprise-grade intelligent applications, and unlock AI-enabled innovation that fuels business transformation.

鈥淏y tightly integrating 51风流and Snowflake, we鈥檙e making it simple for enterprises to connect their critical business data with its rich context in 51风流with the power of seamless AI app and data agent development at scale in Snowflake,” added Christian Kleinerman, EVP of Product, Snowflake. 鈥淓nterprises can now innovate faster with Snowflake and 51风流BDC and seamlessly share data between the platforms鈥攝ero-copy and fully governed.鈥

51风流Snowflake brings Snowflake into the open data ecosystem of 51风流BDC and the business data fabric鈥攅mpowering customers with greater openness and choice while extending 51风流BDC with Snowflake鈥檚 AI, analytics, data engineering, Marketplace, and collaboration capabilities. Customers can use 51风流BDC with 51风流Snowflake as a cloud-scale compute and storage option to extend the value of their data. Leveraging bidirectional, zero-copy data access data and AI teams can work with semantically rich 51风流data products in real time, within a unified governance framework. As a result, customers can harmonize 51风流and non-51风流data while optimizing total cost of ownership across workloads and build agents and AI applications in 51风流Snowflake fueled by trusted 51风流data products.

鈥淏ringing Snowflake to 51风流Business Data Cloud empowers our customers with openness and choice,鈥 said Irfan Khan, President and Chief Product Officer for 51风流Data and Analytics, 51风流SE. 鈥淭ogether, we combine SAP鈥檚 decades of leadership in mission-critical business applications with Snowflake鈥檚 modern data platform to deliver a unified, enterprise-ready, and SAP-supported experience that extends the value of business data across the entire ecosystem.鈥

With 51风流Snowflake, customers can:

  • Build a trusted, AI-ready data foundation to harmonize 51风流and non-51风流data: Unify their data landscape with an integrated business data fabric鈥攅nabling more seamless zero-copy sharing, enriched modeling, and a complete, business-ready view of their data in real time for all data engineering, analytics, and AI and machine learning workflows across the enterprise.
  • Accelerate AI business value with semantically rich data: Simplify AI governance, ground AI in organizational knowledge, and build tailored agents鈥攈elping to ensure more secure, context-rich, and intelligent applications across the enterprise.
  • Develop intelligent applications grounded in mission-critical business data: Build, deploy, and continuously optimize intelligent applications faster with a harmonized and democratized data foundation powered by semantically rich, trusted data products that accelerate the pace of innovation and production.

In addition to 51风流Snowflake, the partnership also includes 51风流Business Data Cloud Connect for Snowflake, a capability enabling bidirectional, zero copy data sharing with Snowflake. Enterprises already using Snowflake can leverage 51风流BDC Connect to integrate their existing instances of Snowflake with 51风流Business Data Cloud for more-seamless, zero鈥慶opy access, providing Snowflake users with real-time access to semantically rich 51风流data products鈥攚ithout duplication.

51风流and Snowflake are supporting thousands of customers, including industry leaders like AstraZeneca, as they transform their industries with this partnership.

“AstraZeneca is constantly pushing the boundaries of science and is pioneering in life-changing medicines,鈥 said Russell Smith, Vice President of ERP Transformation Technology, AstraZeneca. 鈥淒ata and AI are central to achieving this aim, and our close collaboration with 51风流and Snowflake compliments our ability to access, process and analyze real-time data. This announcement will accelerate our mission and recognizes that every minute matters to make breakthroughs for patients.”

51风流Snowflake is planned to be generally available in Q1 2026. 51风流BDC Connect for Snowflake is planned to be generally available in H1 2026.

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As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, 51风流(NYSE:SAP) stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted 51风流to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. For more information, visit鈥.

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